Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 13: Festival - Mai Thuy Linh - DONG TIEN secondary school

DONG TIEN secondary school-Grade 8 Teacher:Mai Thuy Linh 
Lesson: 2 Unit 13. Festivals
Period: 79 Section: Speak and Listen
I, Objectives
 By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to talk about their preparations for a special event and listening for details .
II, Teaching aids
 Textbook, tape, cassette, cards,  .
III, Procedure
 Warm up: *Brainstorming
What do you often do to prepare for Tet?
 Clean the room paint house 
 Cook Chung cakes
 Buy new dress/shoes
 Buy cakes/candies/food/drinks/food.
Write/ send New Year cards to friends/ relative..
 Speak
1. Presentation
a, Pre-teach vocabulary
. Pomegranate (n) (picture)
. Peach blossom (n) (picture)
. Marigold (n) (realia)
. Dried watermelon seed (n) (realia)
. Spring roll (n) (realia) 
b, Checking technique: Bingo
-Shows 10 words : Pomegranate, (to) separate, Peach blossom, (to) fetch, council
 Marigold, watermelon seed, (to) rub, Spring roll, festival.
-Asks Ss to choose any 4 words and copy them into their books.
c, Matching
-Asks Ss to read the dialogue on p.123 and match
 Answer key: A – F
 B – G
 C – H
 D –J
 E – I
d, Ordering
-Has Ss put the sentences in the correct order.
 Answer key: 1. A – F 2.C – H 3.D – J 4.B – G 5.E – I
3. While-speaking
a, Asks Ss to read aloud the dialogue
b, Mapped dialogue
 Mrs Quyen Lan 
 You/tidied/bedroom? 
 Yes/where/going
 Market/have to/oranges/
 pomegranate 
 Could/collect/new Ao Dai
 tailor/corner?
 Sure/will
 Thanks/anything/want/
 me/do/while/out?
 Not really/But/want house/
 look nice/festival.
 Mom/I/what/do now/will/
 clean/glass windows
 That/very good/Bye
 Bye/ 
4. Post-speaking
-Asks Ss to choose one of the festival on p.123 and make up their own dialogues(in pairs)
 Listen
1. Pre-listening
- Set the scene: “The Robinson family is making preparations for Tet. They want to buy things 
 to make it a traditional festival as Vietnamese people do”
2. While-listening
 Gap-fill prediction: Noughts & Crosses
-Asks Ss to listen to the tape and fill in the gaps with the suitable words
1. Mrs. Robinson wants (1). to go to the (2) .
2. Mrs. Robinson wants some (3) because they are (4). at (5) .
3. (6) wants Liz to buy a packet of (7) .
4. Mrs Robinson is asking Mrs Nga how to (8) spring(9). .
 Answer key : 1. Mr. Robnson 1 4 7
 2. flower market 
 3. marigolds 5 9 2
 4. traditional
 5. Tet 3 8 6
 6. Mrs. Robinson 
 7. dried watermelon seeds
 8. make
 9. rolls
3. Post-listening
Grid
-Gets Ss to work in groups to fill in the gaps with the information taken from the
 statements above.
Answer key: Things to do
Mr. Robinson
Go to the flower market to buy peach blossom and a bunch of marigolds
Mrs Robinson
Go to Mrs. Nga’s to learn how to make spring rolls
Liz
Go to the market to buy candies and a packets of dried watermelon seeds
-Gives feedback
4. Conclusion
 Tet is a traditional festival of Vietnamese people. They often prepare many good 
things for Tet. Hoping that you also do the same like helping your parents to clean house,
make Chung cakes . to conserve the tradition.
5. Homework
-Ss write their own dialogue in their books
-Ss do the exercise in the workbook.